{"id":42283,"date":"2013-08-26T17:41:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T21:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging21.finca.org\/uncategorized-en-ca\/ecuador-maria-ramirez"},"modified":"2013-08-26T17:41:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T21:41:02","slug":"ecuador-maria-ramirez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finca.org\/en-ca\/ecuador-maria-ramirez","title":{"rendered":"Knitting for Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Lucia Potosi Ramirez of San Jose de Chorlavi, Ecuador, is married and the mother of five children. She has spent her lifetime knitting beautiful wool sweaters and selling them in the local market. But the income she earned from selling her handiwork went toward providing daily necessities for her family, which never allowed her to save so she could buy wool in bulk at a lower cost. 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